Yet the government body charged with this oversight, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), is regularly derided as the most dysfunctional agency in Washington. Further, as of April 30, 2013, the Commission will have one vacancy and the terms of the remaining five Commissioners will have expired, making an examination of the agency’s future particularly timely.

Join a group of legal and campaign finance experts for a thought-provoking panel discussion on how the FEC might be improved, focusing on education, compliance, and enforcement.

Opening remarks will be delivered by Professor Spencer Overton, Director of the George Washington University Political Law Studies Initiative.

Panelists include:

Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School

Laurence E. Gold, Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold

Lawrence M. Noble, Americans for Campaign Reform

Bradley A. Smith, Capital University Law School

Scott E. Thomas, Dickstein Shapiro

Eric Wang, Americans for Prosperity

The panel will be moderated by CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan and William McGinley of Patton Boggs.